Leashing of hanks of yarn



June 25, 1935. I w A E 2,006,247-

LEASHING OF HANKS OF YARN Filed May 25, 1955 FIG.5. FIG.4

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of reeling, a wider traverse is given to the tra- Patented June 25, 1935 UNITED STATES LEASHING 0F HANKS OF YARN Percy William Metcalfe, Halifax, England, assignor of one-half to Clayton Metcalfe & Company, Limited, Halifa of Great Britain x, England, a corporation Application May 25, 1933, Serial No. 672,888

In Great Britain June 2 Claims.

In the ordinary method of reeling, hanks are wound in 840 yard lengths and the starting and finishing ends are tied up in one tie band which is passed completely round the hank threads and tied. In what is known as the Grant method verse rod and instead of a tie band being tied completely round the hank a lease band is threaded in and out through the threads to separate the hank into sections to keep it open for better dyeing. The starting and finishing ends of the hank are tied up in this band as in the ordinary hank, and another lease band is also threaded through the hank diametrically opposite to the first one to keep the hank open for dyeing and rewinding and prevent it from getting felted.

According to this invention the same traverse may be used as for ordinary reeling with the exception that when half the amount or other predetermined length of yarn has been wound on the reel, the machine is automatically stopped. The reeler then inserts a lease band in the hank in the form of a figure 8 or crossed loop embracing the running end which is not broken. The machine is re-started and the same procedure is adopted each time the specified length has been registered, the sectional lease bands being fixed in between the respective staves of the reel.

When the length of the hank has been completed a tie band is fixed straight round the hank and the starting and finishing ends secured as in ordinary reeling.

With this arrangement when re-winding after dyeing the winder is assured of getting the running ofi end.

7 The sectional lease bands help to keep the yarn from feltering in the dye vats, and if trouble arises each section can be separated on the swift.

After the running end has been found all other tie bands can be removed without trouble if not required.

The whole bank can be reeled to a specified weight and a specified yardage to each section of the hank.

The accompanying drawings show an example of reeling a three hand hank of yarn.

Fig. 1 shows the method of inserting a leaseband in the form of a crossed loop through the threads when the first hand has been reeled.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the addition of another crossed loop through the threads when the second hand has been reeled.

Fig. 3 shows the yarn drawn off the bobbin to complete the three hand hank which is encircled by a tie band.

Fig. 4 shows the method of knotting or tying the starting and finishing ends of the yarn to the encircling tie band before removing the hank from the reeling frame, and

Fig. 5 shows the hank complete after removal from the reeling frame.

Referring to Fig. 1 the yarn A is first drawn from a bobbin B through a guide C on a traversing rail D and tied to the reel E at F. Supposing for example that the operator is reeling hanks which are wound in 840'yard lengths of threehands of 280, the measuring mechanism of the winding frame is set to stop the machine when it has wound a 280 yards length. The reeler then inserts a lease band G in the form of a crossed loop through the threads of the hand toseparate it into two sections. The machine is then re-started and continues to wind on another 280 yards when it is again automatically stopped. The reeler now inserts another lease band H in the form of a crossed loop as shown in Fig. 2. The machine is now started up again and continues to run until the third length of 280 yards has been reeled thereby exhausting the supply from the bobbin. The machine again automatically stops and an ordinary tie band J is tied round the complete hank as shown in Fig. 3. The reeler now detaches the starting end K from the reel E and picks up the finishing end L and ties both ends to the knot of the tie band J. The reel E is now collapsed in the usual manner and the hanks taken ofi.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States is:-

1. A method of leashing hanks of yarn consisting of automatically stopping the reeling machine every time a predetermined length of yarn has been wound on the reel, separating and indicating each length by lease bands, securing the convolutions of the completed hank as in ordinary reeling with a tie band, and securing the starting and finishing ends of the hank to said band.

2. A method of reeling hanks of yarn consisting of automatically stopping the reeling machine when a predetermined length of yarn has been wound on the reel and the insertion of a lease band in the hank in the form of a figure 8 or crossed loop embracing the running end which is not broken, the restarting of the machine and the repetition of the aforementioned steps each time the specified predetermined length has been registered, the fixing of the sectional lease bands in between the staves of the reel, securing a tie band straight around the hank when the length of the hank has been completed and securing the starting 

